A giant blue whale carcass has washed up onto the beach in the small Newfoundland town of Trout River, and some fear it could explode.

The whale is 81-feet long and weighs 60 tons, according to CNN. It has been slowly ballooning into a big problem for the small 600-person town as methane gas builds up inside the carcass causing it to expand.

"I'm not sure with the heat and gases that are trapped inside of this mammal if at some point in time it will explode," said Emily Butler, Trout River's town clerk.

The Trout River whale is one of three that washed up on Canadian shores after dying in the severe ice conditions off the coast this winter, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. But the Trout River blue whale is getting the most attention, because it has become something of a spectacle.

"Even now, the town is drawing a different kind of visitor: People from the region who drive to take in the unusual sight of a blue whale right on the shoreline," Butler told the CBC. "It's very difficult to keep people away, simply because it's not too often that you see a blue whale."

For those of us who can't make the trip to Newfoundland to see the whale, a website called "Has the whale exploded yet?" has been set up featuring a current photo of the bloated leviathan.

Some residents have mulled the idea of trying to push the whale back out to sea, according to The Telegram. Butler isn't willing to take on the project.

"If that whale does explode, we don't know what danger that would be to our infrastructure," she said.

But Jack Lawson, a research scientist with Canada's fisheries department told Metro that the chances this whale will explode are "very small."

"Eventually, that gas will seep out ... It will just deflate like an old balloon," he said. "The risk will come from somebody with a sharp blade who decides they want to cut a hole in the side to see what happens, or if someone is foolish enough to walk on it."

Newfoundland journalist Don Bradshaw took several photos of the whale and shared them on Twitter: